To The Stars Inc.,^[1] formerly known asTo The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences Inc., is aSan Diego-based company co-founded byTom DeLonge (guitarist ofBlink-182 andAngels & Airwaves),Harold E. Puthoff (parapsychologist), and Jim Semivan (author). The company, which is composed ofaerospace,science, andentertainment divisions, has produced music recordings, books, television shows and films. A focus of the company is the promotion ofUFOs and otherfringe science.^[2][3]

To The Stars Inc.

Formerly	To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences Inc.
Company type	Private
Industry	Entertainment, science, aerospace
Founded	2017; 8 years ago (2017)
Founder	Tom DeLonge Harold E. Puthoff Jim Semivan
Headquarters	San Diego,California , United States
Key people	Luis Elizondo Steve Justice Chris Mizer Christopher Mellon
Products	Books, TV shows, films, albums, information, research
Website	tothestars.media

The company was founded in 2017 as apublic benefit corporation by Jim Semivan,Harold E. Puthoff, andTom DeLonge.^[2][4] The Entertainment Division was created by acquiring DeLonge's previous media company, To the Stars, Inc.^[4][5]

In September 2017, the company began offering $50 million worth of public stock through a Regulation A+ equitycrowdfunding campaign.^[4][6] According to SEC filings, as of October 2018 only $1 million of those shares had been sold and the company had a $37.4 million deficit, largely from a stock incentive plan for its employees, promptingArs Technica andVice to question its financial sustainability.^[6][7]

In 2022, the company rebranded from To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science and became known more simply as To The Stars.^[8]

The entertainment leg of To the Stars, often referred to as To the Stars Media, publishes albums, books, TV shows and films.

To the Stars, Inc., the original company folded into the current entity in 2017, was announced in 2014 as arecord label which debuted with Angels & Airwaves' fifth studio albumThe Dream Walker and DeLonge's first solo album,To the Stars... Demos, Odds and Ends.

To the Stars began releasing books, graphic novels and children's picture books in 2015, many of which were co-published bySimon & Schuster. Most of the company's books deal with topics of thesupernatural,ufology andscience fiction. The publishing division most prominently publishes novels in theSekret Machines fictional series, co-authored by DeLonge andA. J. Hartley, as well as theSekret Machines non-fiction companion seriesGods, Man & War co-authored by DeLonge andPeter Levenda. It also publishes the space-based seriesCathedrals of Glass by Hartley, the young adult seriesPoet Anderson by DeLonge and Suzanne Young, and the young adult adventure seriesStrange Times by DeLonge andGeoff Herbach.

The company co-released the short animated filmPoet Anderson: The Dream Walker in 2014, but its first major project was theHistory Channel seriesUnidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation in 2019. A feature film based on theStrange Times book series was in production, but it was repurposed into a television series forTurner Broadcasting System (TBS).^[9] To the Stars has also started production on a documentary TV series and a feature film for theSekret Machines franchise.^[10]

Most recently,^[when?] the company produced Tom DeLonge's feature directorial debut,Monsters of California (2023). Upcoming projects include the animated seriesBreaking Bear forTubi,^[11] andSekret Machines for TV withLegendary.^[12]

The science and aerospace divisions are devoted to the "outer edges of science" such as investigatingunidentified flying objects.^[2] Harold E. Puthoff described their goals as "imagine having 25th-century sciencethis century."^[2] One of their potential projects is an "electromagnetic vehicle."^[2][13]

Vice reported that the company would participate "in the investigation of UFOs and other fringe science projects" and that "many of the technologies or phenomena being researched by the company are based on highly speculative theories that toe the line ofpseudoscience".^[3] To the Stars has detailed the risks involved with this research to potential investors, including possible failure to produce results in areas such asbeamed energy propulsion launch systems andtelepathy.^[3]

Despite the company's work being primarily associated withufology, Luis Elizondo stated: "None of us at TTSA consider ourselves ‘Ufologists’ or part of the ‘Ufology culture,’ in fact, most of us come from a U.S. government background (both Defense and Intelligence)."^[14] Vice reported that the company's "partnership with the U.S. Army may mean that it fancies itself as amilitary contractor", but that the organization "swings between being contenders for military contracts and a UFO research organization".^[14] Elizondo left the company in late 2020.^[15]

The "Virtual AnalyticsUAP Learning Tool" (VAULT) is a public-facing database of UFO sightings. The VAULT team collects, analyses and provides their authentication of UFO sightings, most famously reported in the media as having been obtained through declassified government materials.

Three videos from the VAULT taken during theUSS Nimitz UFO incident and theUSS Theodore Roosevelt UFO incidents were publicly confirmed by the US Navy in September 2019 as authentic videos taken by Navy pilots.^[16][17] The videos were part of a campaign by former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, who at the time was associated with To the Stars, who said that he wanted to shed light on theAdvanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a secretiveDepartment of Defense operation to analyze reported UFO sightings.^[18][19][20] In April 2020, the same footage released by the company was subsequently declassified and officially released by the Navy.^[21]

The company, with assistance fromChristopher Mellon, who worked formerly for theSenate Intelligence Committee and theDepartment of Defense, engaged congress and arranged classifiedcongressional hearings with the pilots involved in the incidents aimed at understanding potential threats to aviators.^{[22][23][24][25]}

The company's ADAM Research Project is promoting what they believe to be an "extraterrestrial" metal for commercial and military applications.^[26][27]

In July 2019 the company stated it had acquired and was studying "potentially exotic materials" as part of its Acquisition & Data Analysis of Materials (ADAM) research project.^[28][29] Steve Justice, To The Stars's COO and former head of Advanced Systems atLockheed Martin'sSkunk Works said in a statement that "the structure and composition of these materials are not from any known existing military or commercial application” and that the materials would be studied in an attempt toreverse engineer them.^[28] Regarding the origin of the materials he stated: “they've been collected from sources with varying levels of chain-of-custody documentation, so we are focusing on verifiable facts and working to develop independent scientific proof of the materials' properties and attributes."^[28] In its SEC filing, the company is recorded as having paid $35,000 for several items including "six pieces of Bismuth/Magnesium-Zinc metal" and a piece of aluminum.^[30]

According to the company, the metals are believed to be from an unidentified flying object, and were previously "retained and studied" byufologistLinda Moulton Howe.^[30] Moulton Howe claimed in 2004 that the metals become a “lifting body” when subjected toelectromagnetic radiation,^[30] but TTS recognized this claim was not substantiated and stated they were working on "[verifying] facts and working to develop independent scientific proof of the materials' properties and attributes."^[31] Today, however, she claims she has had the samples tested byCarnegie Science's Department of Technical Magnetism in 1996 and again by Harold E. Puthoff and others on several occasions.^[32] According to a letter from Puthoff in 2012 the tests were unable to prove the alien origin of the samples or any "interesting/anomalous outcome" but suggested that one additional test was remaining that required special equipment which was not readily available.^[32] The company has partnered with research labs founded by Puthoff to study the materials further.^[6] Critics say there is no evidence to support the claim that the materials are "otherworldly in origin" or that they may be "scientifically important". Commenting on similar reports of "Alien Alloys",American Chemical Society expert panel member Richard Sachleben considers such claims "quite impossible". According to Sachleben, "I don't think it's plausible that there's any alloys that we can't identify". May Nyman ofOregon State University Department of Chemistry criticized claims of extensive research to identify an unknown alloy, saying, "if we had such mysterious metals, you could take it to any university where research is done, and they could tell you what are the elements and something about the crystalline phase within a few hours."^[33][34][30] Chris Cogswell, who holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and hosts the Mad Scientist Podcast, states that “the chances of it being important scientifically are extremely slim" and suggested that the Bismuth/Magnesium-Zinc pieces may be slag from an industrial process such as theBetterton-Kroll process.^[30]

On October 17, 2019, the company announced it entered into acooperative research and development agreement with theUnited States Army Combat Capabilities Development Command.^[35] The five-year contract will focus on "inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials, electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion." According to the U.S. Army, no public funding will go to the group,^[36] but at least $750,000 will be provided in support and resources for developing and testing To the Stars technologies.^[37][38] The contract states that To the Stars will provide samples in its possession of “metamaterials”, any data or “obtained vehicles" that use “beamed energy propulsion,” and any information or technology related to “active camouflage” for testing and analysis of potential application on Army ground vehicles.^[37][38] Doug Halleaux, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center, has stated that the US government has approached To the Stars since “If materials represented in the TTSA ADAM project are scientifically evaluated and presented with supporting data as having military utility by the TTSA, it makes sense to look deeper here.”^[14] According to Halleaux, the Army is also interested in the results of a collaboration between To the Stars andTruClear Global, a company that creates custom video screen billboards, aimed at providing "advanced technology solutions to United States Government clientele."^[14]

Sekret Machines

• Sekret Machines: Book 1 – Chasing Shadows (2016) (with A. J. Hartley)
• Sekret Machines: Gods (2017) (with Peter Levenda)
• Sekret Machines: Book 2 – A Fire Within (2018) (with A. J. Hartley)
• Sekret Machines: Man (2019) (with Peter Levenda)
• Sekret Machines: War (2024) (with Peter Levenda)

Cathedrals of Glass

• Cathedrals of Glass: A Planet of Blood and Ice (2017)
• Cathedrals of Glass: Valkrys Wakes (2020)

Poet Anderson

• Poet Anderson: ...Of Nightmares (2015)
• Poet Anderson: ...In Darkness (2018)

Strange Times

• Strange Times: The Curse of Superstition Mountain (2015)
• Strange Times: The Ghost in the Girl (2016)

Other

• The Lonely Astronaut on Christmas Eve(re-release) (2016)
• Who Here Knows Who Took My Clothes? (2018)

• Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker (2014)
• Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation (2019–2020)
• UntitledStrange Times TV show (TBA)^[9]
• UntitledSekret Machines documentary series (TBA)^[10]
• UntitledSekret Machines film (TBA)^[10]

• Angels & Airwaves –The Dream Walker (2014)
• Tom DeLonge –To the Stars... Demos, Odds and Ends (2015)
• Angels & Airwaves –...Of Nightmares (2015)
• Angels & Airwaves –Chasing Shadows (2016)

• Official To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences websiteArchived August 7, 2018, at theWayback Machine
• Official To the Stars Media website
• Official V.A.U.L.T. website